The Pagemaster

The Pagemaster is a 1994 film directed by Joe Johnston and Maurice Hunt that stars Macaulay Culkin and Christopher Lloyd. It tells the story of Richard Tyler, a pessimistic 10 year old who lives his life "based on statistics," who faces his fears in an animated world with three books: Horror, Adventure, and Fantasy.

Richard Tyler: [on seeing the Pagemaster again] Hey! How did you get here!?

Fantasy: [through her teeth] Quit it! We're in the presence of the Pagemaster!

Richard Tyler: I know who he is. He's the one who did THIS[gesturing along his body] to me!! Do you have any idea what I've been through?!

Pagemaster: Tell me.

Richard Tyler: I was nearly torn apart by a crazy doctor!! I was made a slave by a bunch of mangy pirates. And eaten--got that, eaten--by a fire-breathing dragon!!

Horror: He don't mean it, my Pagemaster. He don't mean it.

Richard Tyler: And not to mention being tossed, squashed, and scared practically to death!!

Pagemaster: Yet you stand before me.

Richard Tyler: Well, yeah.

Pagemaster: Think, boy! What kind of an answer would you've had if I brought you here with the turn of a page?

[hologram of Mr. Hyde appears, then morphs into Jekyll]

Dr. Jekyll: You prevailed over evil. [morphs into Captain Ahab]

Captain Ahab: Ah, you looked Moby Dick in the eye, boy. [morphs into Long John Silver]

Long John Silver: Ah, you had pirate stuff, me lad! And don't no one speak any different.

Pagemaster: If I had brought you here from the start, you would've never had the courage to face your own fears. [hologram morphs into the Dragon] And in doing so, you triumph here... and always. [hologram shows a live-action Richard Tyler unconscious on the library's rotunda floor]